LEADER 03506nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910972141003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-48520-2 010 $a9786612485206 010 $a1-60473-335-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000721962 035 $a(EBL)515537 035 $a(OCoLC)317404636 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000155164 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11155747 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000155164 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10111580 035 $a(PQKB)11740389 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000204111 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC515537 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse13567 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL515537 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10282590 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL248584 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000721962 100 $a20140131d2008 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aFinding a way home $ea critical assessment of Walter Mosley's fiction /$fedited by Owen E. Brady and Derek C. Maus 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aJackson, [Miss.] $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (223 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a1-60473-088-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Abbreviations; Walter Mosley's RL's Dream and the Creation of a Blutopian Community; Socrates Fortlow's Odyssey: The Quest for Home and Self; Walter Mosley, Socratic Method, and the Black Atlantic; Devil with the Blue Eyes: Reclaiming the Human against Pure Evil in Walter Mosley's The Man in My Basement; Easy Women: Black Beauty in Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins Mystery Series; The Visible Man: Moving Beyond False Visibility in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins Novels 327 $aFearless Ezekiel: Alterity in the Detective Fiction of Walter MosleyAmerican Negroes Revisited: The Intellectual and The Badman in Walter Mosley's Fearless Jones Novels; At Home on "These Mean Streets": Collaboration and Community in Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins Mystery Series; The Mouse Will Play: The Parodic in Walter Mosley's Fiction; Shadows of an Imminent Future: Walter Mosley's Dystopia and Science Fiction; Cyberfunk: Walter Mosley Takes Black to the Future; Epilogue: Whither Walter? A Brief Overview of Mosley's Recent Work; Works Cited; Contributors; Index 330 8 $aIn this book, thirteen chapters by scholars from four countries trace Walter Mosley's distinctive approach to representing African American responses to the feeling of homelessness in an inhospitable America. Mosley (b. 1952) writes frequently of characters trying to construct an idea of home and wrest a sense of dignity, belonging, and hope from cultural and communal resources. The chapters examine his queries about the meaning of 'home' in various social and historical contexts. 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aHome in literature 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aHome in literature. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRace identity. 676 $a813/.54 701 $aBrady$b Owen Edward$f1946-$01817985 701 $aMaus$b Derek C$01131356 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910972141003321 996 $aFinding a way home$94376868 997 $aUNINA